URGENT!!! Infection needs to be overhauled

[FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ) 41]

Infection is just not fun right now.

Why?

-It unavoidably drains your health down to 50%

-You can get it randomly by a zombie hitting you while bleeding.

-It infects other players making you an antisocial outcast, which wouldn't be unbearable if it didn't...

-Last FOREVER if antibiotics aren't used.

-Antibiotics spawn WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY too rarely, I checked hospitals 15 TIMES and found no antibiotics.

Suggestions:

-Since this "infection" doesn't turn you into a zombie, it isn't the zombie disease, make it impossible to get from zombies, however cold and infected player contact should remain as means of getting infected.

-Make the infection last 1-2 hours of gameplay if your character is properly hydrated and fed. And if you go offline for more than 8 hours, it will also be healed.

-Shouldn't drain your health to 6000 blood, only to 10000, that way, being sick keeps you from operating at 100%, instead of making you a half-dead weakling, I've gone to american football practice days at a time while sick without antibiotics and been able to push on, and I don't think I'm some kind of uber-tough superman who's bragging how "toughzor" he is XD.

[Oompa 25]

I've never actually been sick in-game... nor have I seen anti-biotics XD

Make them spawn more often I guess.

[FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ) 41]

^^ I religiously kept my temperature up, and avoided sketchy players (only play with friends who are good enough to know when they are infected), but one random zombie strike and I am infected permanently, forced to waltz right into Cherno or Elektro to raid the hospital with a 2% chance of finding antiobiotics, and can't play with anyone because no one wants to be infected, it is MISERABLE and unfair.

[Ferrell 0]

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Antibiotics are too rare for it to be so tough. I wouldn't mind it if you could actually find some. In the month or so I've been playing I've seen maybe 3 of them spawn in hospitals. Either bump up the spawn, or even better have special zombies drop med supplies, like doctors, or nurses, or pharmacists. Or make them more common on crash helis, something that gives the player more of a challenge then just grabbing some at the hospital on the way out of town.

[Confus 3]

I agree with sickness being curable without antibiotics. It should still take a while though and I think it should last for a bit more than 2 hours, maybe 3 or 4.

[FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ) 41]

I agree with sickness being curable without antibiotics. It should still take a while though and I think it should last for a bit more than 2 hours' date=' maybe 3 or 4.

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That's fine. But the current implementation is both not fun AND unrealistic, you don't get sick forever.

[tso 5]

anti may be too rare or possibly never spawning at all?

I think zombies are dirty so an infection in a bloody wound still makes sense.

Temp is rather easy to handle.

Keep drain down to 6000 but perhaps make it so player can recover eventually. =/

or scale back to a cold eventually then recover or get worse again?

[KWilt 157]

There are antibiotics in this game?

No, seriously. I thought that was just a feature incoming. I've never seen a single bottle. Ever.

[Capercaillie 16]

That's fine. But the current implementation is both not fun AND unrealistic' date=' you don't get sick forever.

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nope, you don't get sick forever, at some point you will just simply die.

Please try not to use "realism" as an argument, you have probably never been really sick if you think it is common to exercise while sick and feel totally normal about it.

A simple, small infection CAN kill you irl if not treated properly, there's a chance it will poison your blood.

Being sick (fever, cold etc.) is not always the same as having an infection.

Back to topic, yeah they should increase spawn rate of antibiotics, yet the infection effects are fine imo.

[thales2010@live.com.au 6]

Sounds like you caught the HIV. I personally like the way this infection is set as it gives you an incentive to stay out of the rain and to avoid zeds. I do understand your feelings towards antibiotics although i believe they should remain to be incredibly hard to get.

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I agree with sickness being curable without antibiotics. It should still take a while though and I think it should last for a bit more than 2 hours' date=' maybe 3 or 4.

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That's fine. But the current implementation is both not fun AND unrealistic, you don't get sick forever.

This is true you dont get sick forever. you get sick and then you die because you havent been taking your pills.

[Nyarhra 0]

Maybe getting better over time could work

But you would have to remain well feed and hydrated, warm and dry for an extended period of time I'm talking like a day or two

That way it could be done but it's risky cause you have to stay put for 1-2 days

Just my thoughts